This unassuming late #80s JVC RC-N5 #boombox is surprisingly heavy and well made. It looks like a basic portable radio, but it has a secret #cassette deck built in!
I'm not looking for new vintage #cassette gear right now, but when a friend gifts you a desirable one owner #boombox from 1985 that's in close to new condition and doesn't need any work, it'd be churlish not to accept, right?
These #Sharp component boomboxes are a bit of a unicorn in that they're small, fully featured, can take a #turntable input and actually sound excellent.
I keep a Bluetooth speaker on my #bicycle.
I like to play #techno, #hiphop#metal and #PunkRock while I ride.
When I'm overtaking pedestrians they hear me well before I get near them.
It's illegal to use headphones on a bicycle in #Japan, if you're foreign.
The joy of being able to choose not to listen to car sounds.
If my phone rings while I'm riding, I hear it.
If the trains, cars and motorcycles aren't too loud for you, then neither is my music. #BoomBox#freespeech#urbanism#fuckcars
I had a very short phase when I was younger in the early 1980's: I loved Hip-Hop and Breakdance. Used to meet with my friends at the park and do those dance challenges.
Then I discovered Heavy Metal, Japanese Metal and JPop, and I changed my lifestyle that lasts 'till today.
#DaftPunk mixed their first two albums on a JVC #boombox like this. All the standard advice to ‘don’t mix on this or that’ and they used a 10 year old boombox with a simple graphic equalizer.
The lesson: Expensive equipment isn’t necessary; mix on something you use and know well.
And don’t wait until you have the ‘right’ equipment. As #ArthurAshe said,
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”